>>9592
>Remember JPEG artifacts?
>Images with those compression artifacts feel like older/vintage image files.

JPG files still have artifacts. We have more internet, so people aren't as perpetually worried about transferring forty-megabyte files as if it were a sip of coffee, but it used to be a whole afternoon - so you cropped, and downsampled, out of courtesy for people who wanted to look at OTHER images, too.

These two were saved from stable-diffusion results created a week or two ago. Artifacts are part of lossy images, which we all still use.